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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






2. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






3. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






4. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






5. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






6. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






7. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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8. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






9. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






10. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






11. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






12. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






13. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






14. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






15. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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16. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






17. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






18. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






19. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






20. Feeling through fingertips






21. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






22. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






23. Final stable syllable

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24. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






25. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






26. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






27. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






28. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






29. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






30. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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31. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






32. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






33. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






34. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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35. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






36. Whole body learning






37. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






38. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






39. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






40. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






41. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






42. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






43. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






44. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






45. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






46. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






47. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






48. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






49. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






50. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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